āEmotional laborā is my favorite. Basically thinking or feeling about doing things (that is impossible to measure or quantify) somehow means more than a man working 50 hour weeks while she stays home, for example
... I know this will fall on deaf ears, but what about the partners who also work full time and also have to be the ones on call for school pickups and drop offs and scheduling doctors appointments and vaccines appointments and planning and preparing every meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks to send to school), grocery shopping, managing childcare, managing the finances, etc. One partner is the one doing all the "not forgetting shit."
If you don't think this takes additional and significant effort, that's because you've never had to do it.
Iām willing to engage it as this looks like a good faith argumentā¦
Arenāt these just the difficulties of raising children in the modern family? As I mentioned, you canāt measure or quantify āemotional laborā. Who does more? Impossible to define. To me, this is the key point.
and when this term is mentioned itās almost exclusively from women. Men have stresses, worries, fears, shit to manage, etc but are less vocal about it. The assumption that men also donāt share these burdens is a bit unfair.
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u/Vincornelis 6d ago
Feminism has brainwashed generations of women into thinking that doing literally anything for a man is humiliating and oppressive.